Each year I like to start off fresh with new ideas, new plans and often new looks. The website I’m thinking about changing but haven’t yet fully decided on that.  It’s a big job. But I have updated my newsletter and had some great feedback on the new look.
Why not pop in to see my [...]

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Update on AVAC – VA Conference
As you know the inaugural Australian VA Conference (AVAC) will be held in Melbourne, Australia on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March 2010.  This conference is open to all VAs in any location.
We hope you’re planning to join us and meet your fellow VAs face-to-face at this [...]

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Well, how is your project progressing?  Would love to hear about it.
The person I helped this week isn’t in the VA industry but is a budding photographer.  She was seeking advice on a photographer’s forum about a business card she was designing and asked for input.  I and others did just that but what surprised [...]

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Email, for Virtual Assistants, is often our first point of contact with potential clients. It works like an amabassador for our businesses.
Many experienced VAs, like myself, get a lot of emails from would-be VAs wanting to get work outsourced to them, or wanting to find out if they can work with us as a sub-contractor [...]

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I had a client of one of my VA team members contact me recently. He wanted to know how much contact I had with them and if I could check into something for him.
A VA had been providing him with phone services and he said he’d emailed, SMS’d and left a phone message for her [...]

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Well, the end of my first week and who have I helped this past week?
This first is a member of the ACS team (A Clayton’s Secretary which is the VA network I run).  A member sent me this message after being told by a client she had gotten the job he posted:
I also wanted to [...]

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